This page is a semi-organized collection of my notes on setting up background bitcoin miner on an old'ish desktop computer. By background I mean I can have it running and still watch 1080p video fullscreen with dual monitors and have no desktop lag. This is not about achieving absolutely max performance for a dedicated GPU miner.

The below section is now outdated. It uses the obsolete ATI Stream SDK 2.1 with Ubuntu lucid repository drivers.

##
## lots copied from the below guide, but updated Sept. 01 2011
## to include new json-rpclib source and information on current
## git sourced poclbm command line examples.
##
## http://foreverrising.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/bitcoin-mining-and-ubuntu-10-10-ati-radeon-5xxx/

# I used the System->Administration->Hardware Drivers, proprietary driver for ATI.
# I did not install my video driver manually.

## Setup the ATI SDK
# download http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz to /opt
# it cannot be wget'd, use a browser to click through the EULA, save to /opt
cd /opt
sudo tar xfzv ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64.tgz

## Setup the ... whatever this is? Registration?
# download http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/icd-registration.tgz to /
# it cannot be wget'd, use a browser to click through the EULA, save to /
sudo tar xfzv icd-registration.tgz
# It'll make /etc/OpenCL/vendors/

## Setup and install json-rpclib
sudo apt-get install g++ libboost-all-dev subversion git-core python-numpy
# not really needed, but it's what I did because I thought I was going to
# compile the svn, but the svn server disapeared mid-July 2011, so I took
# an alternative route.
# the replacement for the svn version
# https://github.com/joshmarshall/jsonrpclib
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install jsonrpclib

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